Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Iron Maggie rusts

When she won her 3rd term, Tory legend Margaret Thatcher became the first British prime minister in more than 160 years to do so. The Labour Party was in tatters, and the Iron Lady had reached heights few could comprehend with a far-right ideology where the state ceded space to the private sector. She was ‘raring to get to work’ to privatise water, electricity, airports, and some said, anything that moved.